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Pearl Fisher, by Alain Finkielkraut: the taste of others

2024-02-02T06:09:48.574Z

Highlights: In his latest book, Alain Finkielkraut draws inspiration from quotes from great authors to reflect on love, death, progress. The author does not feed on cut grass but on quotes, carefully gathered from his readings, copied by hand in large notebooks. Who still practices this literary herbarium in the age of tweets and screenshots? Is this a habit of eternal khâgneux or a legacy of Jewish hermeneutics? He quotes and recites. He chews his great authors whose substance he assimilates to the point that they become for him like interior voices.


REVIEW - In his latest book, Alain Finkielkraut draws inspiration from quotes from great authors to reflect on love, death, progress. Deep and delicate.


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“When Europe faced the great invasions”

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Discover in this issue the history of the demographic, political and cultural upheavals that affected Europe from the 4th to the 10th century.

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On the sheath of his academic sword, Alain Finkielkraut placed a cow's head.

By allusion to the spirit of childhood and its love for the adventures of Delphine and Marinette, but also in reference to rumination as a philosophical mode.

Finkielkraut does not feed on cut grass but on quotes, carefully gathered from his readings, copied by hand in large notebooks.

Who still practices this literary herbarium in the age of tweets and screenshots?

Is this a habit of eternal khâgneux or a legacy of Jewish hermeneutics?

Finkielkraut broods.

He quotes and recites.

He chews his great authors whose substance he assimilates to the point that they become for him like interior voices with which…

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